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• January 27, 2022 27 Jan'22

  Umbrella company cyber attacks prompt fresh calls for sector regulation to protect contractors

  With the umbrella company industry increasingly finding itself under attack from cyber criminals, contracting market stakeholders embark on a fresh round of calls for the industry to be regulated

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  EY to open Neuro-Diverse Centre of Excellence in Manchester

  Professional services firm EY is launching a Neuro-Diverse Centre of Excellence in the UK to create a perfect working environment for neuro-diverse tech innovators

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Twitter to expand Singapore engineering hub

  Twitter will double its engineering workforce in Singapore by 2023, as part of its regional expansion plans

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Around 65% of tech recruiters say there’s bias in the hiring process

  Those responsible for recruiting developers worldwide have admitted that bias during the hiring process is an issue

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Gartner: IT spending forecast points to skills rebalance

  Latest forecast on IT spending shows that more IT workloads are being deployed in the cloud, and outsourcing is also set for a boost

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Content removal will not stop misinformation, says Royal Society

  Censorship of scientific misinformation online could exacerbate feelings of distrust, so government should look at information literacy and funding fact checkers instead, says report

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Umbrella firm Parasol confirms ‘malicious activity’ as root cause of ongoing systems outage

  Umbella company confirms a ‘malicious activity on its network’ as the root cause of a systems outage that has delayed salary payments to thousands of contractors across the UK

• January 14, 2022 14 Jan'22

  Microsoft veteran turns her attention to levelling up IT industry for women

  Diversity goes beyond balancing the internal workforce and should include working with partners that also have diversity as a core objective, says Gavriella Schuster

• January 13, 2022 13 Jan'22

  Google forced to release documents about anti-union campaign

  New court documents reveal that Google attempted to keep details of its anti-union campaign confidential by claiming attorney-client privilege

• January 13, 2022 13 Jan'22

  ICO investigates police use of app to covertly record calls from mobile phones

  Surrey and Sussex police forces call in regulators after 1,000 police officers downloaded an app to covertly record phone calls on police-issued mobile phones

• January 10, 2022 10 Jan'22

  Young people are leaving tech because of bad culture

  There are many reasons young people aren’t choosing a career in tech, but it also seems they are leaving the industry when they find its culture isn’t inclusive enough

• December 31, 2021 31 Dec'21

  Top 10 startup stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 startup stories of 2021

• December 31, 2021 31 Dec'21

  Top 10 Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcasts of 2021

  The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team began the year discussing the online fallout from the storming of the White House and finished it discussing IT and climate change, touching on bees and datacentres along the way

• December 30, 2021 30 Dec'21

  Top 10 IT careers and skills stories of 2021

  What did the skills and hiring landscape look like for tech in 2021? Computer Weekly shares the key moments for IT careers and skills over the past year

• December 23, 2021 23 Dec'21

  Top 10 women in tech and diversity in tech stories of 2021

  As the year draws to a close, Computer Weekly looks over some of the notable stories relating to women in tech, diversity and inclusion throughout 2021

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Defra and MoJ hit with £120m IR35 tax bill despite using HMRC guidance

  Government departments landed with tax bills totalling just over £120m over contractor IR35 status errors, despite receiving HMRC guidance and training

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Minorities in IT less likely to be in leadership positions

  IT specialists who are from under-represented groups in the UK’s technology sector are less likely to hold higher-up roles, or to be in permanent positions

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Digital Ethics Summit: Innovation needs regulation to be ethical

  Experts attending the 2021 Digital Ethics Summit spoke out against the idea that regulation will stifle technological innovation, arguing that setting clear rules will produce more ethical innovation

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Scottish government announces support for right to disconnect

  The Scottish government is the first in the UK to publicly support a right to disconnect, which would give people the ability not engage in digitally enabled work-related activities outside of their contracted hours

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  Young people think it’s ‘too late’ for them to get into tech

  Young people across the globe have an interest in technology careers, but a lack of training and the industry’s poor reputation for diversity are acting as deterrents

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  Institute of Coding adds 1,500 grads to UK’s tech talent pool

  A number of bootcamps developed by the Institute of Coding are about to deliver talent with newly obtained technology skills into the UK’s potential workforce

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  CIO interview: Nicola Wadham, Financial Ombudsman Service

  CIO Nicola Wadham brings Computer Weekly up to speed on the Financial Ombudsman Service’s IT challenges and successes

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  UK privacy chief denies conflict of interest in new role

  UK information commissioner will join a private law firm that represents technology companies she used to regulate, raising questions about conflicts of interest and drawing ‘revolving door’ criticisms

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  More than 65% of IT business leaders say pandemic was good for D&I

  The pandemic helped many organisations get on top of their diversity and inclusion initiatives, say business leaders in tech and other sectors

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  Fintech boss fires 900 staff on one Zoom call

  Better.com boss used a Zoom call to tell 900 people they no longer had a job

• December 06, 2021 06 Dec'21

  Women in tech lack training opportunities, says Skillsoft

  Women in tech both globally and in the UK lack training opportunities, says Skillsoft, with many claiming this has been a barrier for them in their careers

• December 06, 2021 06 Dec'21

  Parents more equipped for home learning than teachers

  Home learning was more easily embraced by parents than teachers, with parents saying they had the tech in place for remote schooling

• December 03, 2021 03 Dec'21

  Almost three-quarters of digital talent planning job change

  Globally, a large number of digital workers have plans to move roles within the next few years, with a significant number already job hunting

• December 03, 2021 03 Dec'21

  IR35: Government consultation on umbrella companies fuels regulation hopes

  The government has embarked on a consultation to understand better how the umbrella market works, which is a move that has been cautiously welcomed by contracting market stakeholders

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  Kaspersky introduces cyber policy for bionic devices

  Cyber firm Kaspersky has become one of the first organisations in the world to develop and implement a security policy covering the use of bionic devices and other forms of human augmentation

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  Initiative launched to increase London tech diversity

  After research from the Greater London Authority finds that young black men are most likely to be unemployed in the capital, London’s mayor launches an initiative to increase employment in the tech sector

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  MI6 will ‘open up’ to tech firms to innovate faster than adversaries, says chief Richard Moore

  MI6 will use investment fund to back tech companies to develop long-term technologies that will help it to keep pace with China and Russia

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  HMRC denies outside-IR35 hiring ban as accounts reveal agency’s reliance on umbrella workers

  HM Revenue & Customs accounts reveal marked rise in total number of temporary workers it engages, with most of them providing services through umbrella firms

• November 25, 2021 25 Nov'21

  Industry must collaborate to advance digital skills, says FutureDotNow

  Business coalition calls for cross-industry collaboration to close the UK’s digital skills gap

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  One in three Norwegian unicorns created in 2021 alone

  Norway’s tech sector has undergone rapid growth in the past year, consolidating the Nordic country’s position as an emerging European tech hub

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  IT Priorities 2022: Software development

  As organisations rebuild after the Covid-19 pandemic, strategic software projects will help them become more effective

• November 23, 2021 23 Nov'21

  NCSC commits to new diversity measures

  The National Cyber Security Centre’s second annual report on diversity in cyber security finds room for improvement

• November 23, 2021 23 Nov'21

  Commons committee launches STEM diversity inquiry

  Inquiry will assess the lack of diversity in UK science, technology, engineering and maths and will measure current attempts to improve representation

• November 22, 2021 22 Nov'21

  CIO interview: Karl Hoods, CDIO, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

  Moving to the cloud, developing staff skills and responding quickly to the pandemic – from a public sector IT leader’s perspective

• November 18, 2021 18 Nov'21

  AstraZeneca looks at the bigger picture in enterprise social media

  How do you work with people in different time zones and from different cultures and what happens when people leave the company?

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Security startups line up on Cyber Runway

  Some 108 cyber security startups representing the UK’s most cutting-edge innovators are to join Plexal’s Cyber Runway accelerator

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Out of the shadows: The rise of ethical hackers in 2021

  Ethical hackers working on the Bugcrowd platform have saved organisations almost $30bn in risk during the Covid-19 pandemic, as the community sheds old stereotypes

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Unit4 research finds divergence between decision-makers and employees in SMEs

  Sponsored research among mid-sized enterprises finds decision-makers and employees to be radically at odds in reading what makes a successful organisation

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Three-quarters of global IT decision-makers facing skills gaps

  Research by Skillsoft has found that 76% of IT decision-makers across the world have departmental skills gaps – a number that has increased significantly in the past five years

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Government bodies refuse FOI requests on basis of misleading database search times, says academic

  The Information Commissioner’s Office tells tribunal it would need to bring in external experts to search data using an Excel spreadsheet

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  New law needed to rein in AI-powered workplace surveillance

  MPs and peers call for new legislation to regulate the growing use of artificial intelligence in the workplace, which is being used to surveil workers’ performance and behaviour

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  Oversight of biometrics and surveillance should not go to ICO

  Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Fraser Sampson has panned the UK government’s proposed plan to absorb the functions of those roles under the remit of the information commissioner

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Post-Covid tech world to see 89% of UK tech operations hosted off-premise

  Leading UK ISP releases research showing that emergence of the hybrid era means that dependence on on-premise infrastructure to support a full capacity office is no longer required

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  Tech’s reaction to the Budget’s skills promises

  During the 2021 Autumn Budget, chancellor Rishi Sunak announced several measures aimed at increasing skilled workers in the UK – but does the tech sector think it’s enough?

• November 08, 2021 08 Nov'21

  Gig economy workforce nearly trebles over five years

  Over four million people in England and Wales now work for gig economy platforms at least once a week, marking a nearly threefold increase since 2016